new series of wheeler dealers

[150bhp]

anyone know when the new series of wheeler dealers start? their website doesn't give a date. cheers.

[Save Ferris]

Not sure on when the series starts, but some of the cars are for sale here on PH...

Exhibit A

http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/1476488.htm

Exhibit B

http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/1476500.htm

edited to add the Jensen and not the 840 twice!

Edited by Save Ferris on Thursday 25th February 16:30

[150bhp]

take it theres a bmw 840i on the next series!

[SeeFive]

150bhp said:

take it theres a bmw 840i on the next series!

and a stag and sapphire cossie by the look of it.

[150bhp]

SeeFive said:

150bhp said:

take it theres a bmw 840i on the next series!

and a stag and sapphire cossie by the look of it.

excellent, about time they featured a fast ford.

[Loose_Cannon]

So do they flog them here after pretending to sell them on the programme?

[zeb]

On another forum I saw the cossie advertised and you were told then that you would have to agree to filmed if you purchased the car so I presume they are the actual punters

[miniman]

Loose_Cannon said:

So do they flog them here after pretending to sell them on the programme?

No if you read the detail of the ads, they say "buyer may be filmed for the programme" - so they advertise it to try to attract a suitable candidate for Mike to gurn at and say "awld aaah yar ahhnd me aaald chynna ahmm gunna ave a deaal wiv yah".

Now then, an Interceptor? Surely precisely the kind of car never to buy when it's just been tarted up by a nine foot mechanic with parts supplied by a chimp?

[zeb]

I take it your not that keen on the programme then...?

[monthefish]

miniman said:

just been tarted up by a nine foot mechanic

Is that your opinion of the work Edd does?

[Cooky]

Edd's paintwork on that Capri still makes me chuckle He does his best though and it is good light-hearted entertainment. Brewer is just a Muppet, nothing that a few kicks in the nads wouldn't sort.

[Targarama]

Good show, pity they tart the cars up so much that they rarely make much money, especially if you take Eds labour into account - poor bloke spends many many hours on some of the sheds only for Mike to let them go for £50 profit. Still, its good TV.

The one show that sticks in my mind is the Suzuki SJ110/Samuri thingy they got all the hi-lift components for. How much labour did that need?

Ed needs to wear some overalls and gloves!

I'm looking forward to the new series anyway

[miniman]

monthefish said:

miniman said:

just been tarted up by a nine foot mechanic

Is that your opinion of the work Edd does?

Nothing against Edd, he is by all accounts a great mechanic and a much better presenter than Brewer. However the gist of the show is certainly "tart it up and sell it on". It would be much better if they got shot of Brewer and focussed a bit more on the actual work that's done.

[Loose_Cannon]

The "test drives" Brewer takes really get on my pips. Not only the teeth-gratingly predictable "wooo-hoooooo" he has to preface swerving some clapped out old heap round single track country lanes, but the fact that it also gives the wrong idea to any clueless prospective seller that it's OK to toss your keys to any uninsured neanderthal for an unsupervised ragging.

[monthefish]

miniman said:

monthefish said:

miniman said:

just been tarted up by a nine foot mechanic

Is that your opinion of the work Edd does?

Nothing against Edd, he is by all accounts a great mechanic and a much better presenter than Brewer. However the gist of the show is certainly "tart it up and sell it on". It would be much better if they got shot of Brewer and focussed a bit more on the actual work that's done.

I like it as-is.

Agreed MB can be a bit annoying, but it's all part of the show, and I think they currently get the balanace right between being technical enough, but not too much (so that only hardened grease-monkeys understand what is going on)

[FourWheelDrift]

I've just read about Mike Brewer being on a Chinook in Afghanstan when the pilot was shot between his eyes. The bullet seemed to have been slowed down as it went through the bracket the night vision goggles connect to. Also lost cockpit instruments and control from other shots, yet he still managed to fly on for a further 8 minutes safely to base.

Brewer will go anywhere to sell a car.

Found an online link sorry it's the currant bun - http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/campaign...

Edited by FourWheelDrift on Friday 5th March 11:55

[Targarama]

Loose_Cannon said:

The "test drives" Brewer takes really get on my pips. Not only the teeth-gratingly predictable "wooo-hoooooo" he has to preface swerving some clapped out old heap round single track country lanes, but the fact that it also gives the wrong idea to any clueless prospective seller that it's OK to toss your keys to any uninsured neanderthal for an unsupervised ragging.

If he just drove along and droned on about the car you'd say he was boring. Give him a personality and all of a sudden he's useless. I'm not the biggest fan of the Brewer/Dom Littlewood approach to this but it adds a bit of fun to the whole thing without the bullst that Clarkson spouts or the "its crap as I can't get it sideways enough" that Plato and Tiff spout - like owners care about that - they want to know how it feels near the limit and what to do.

[150bhp]

Edd China is a genius mechanic who anyone with anything to do with Pistonheads would be happy to know. i dream of the day day i come across a mechanic who knows half the sh't he does. Eastenders or Wheeler Dealer? Come dine with me or Wheeler Dealer? "tart it up and sell it on" any day of the week.

monthefish said:

miniman said:

monthefish said:

miniman said:

just been tarted up by a nine foot mechanic

Is that your opinion of the work Edd does?

Nothing against Edd, he is by all accounts a great mechanic and a much better presenter than Brewer. However the gist of the show is certainly "tart it up and sell it on". It would be much better if they got shot of Brewer and focussed a bit more on the actual work that's done.

I like it as-is.

Agreed MB can be a bit annoying, but it's all part of the show, and I think they currently get the balanace right between being technical enough, but not too much (so that only hardened grease-monkeys understand what is going on)

[pod1069]

So any idea when it starts?

[Slacey]

From Wikipedia:

"....forthcoming 7th series of the show is currently being filmed and will be broadcast on the Discovery channel in April 2010"